| From: | United Kingdom 🇬🇧 |
| Date of birth: | 18th Sep 1910 |
| Age: | 31 years old |
| Date of death: | 14th Sep 1942 |
| Gender: | Male |
| Hardest Trad (Onsight): | HVS |
| Notable Partnerships | |
| Alf Bridge | |
| Wilfrid Noyce | |
| Albert Hargreaves | |
As a man he was a delightful companion on the hills, full of fun and interest in the things about him. He was kindliness itself and also most unassuming about his climbing, yet never carrying his modesty so far as to appear to be fishing for adulation. To those who did not know him well he may have appeared dull, but this was not so—he was a simple soul, not much interested in the complicated ways of modern life, finding his escape and true expression in his mountaineering. [3]
[1] https://footlesscrow.blogspot.com/2011/05/colin-kirkus-gemini-rising.html
[2] https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/ticklists/colin_kirkus_routes-3283
[3] In Memoriam, Albert Hargreaves and Jack Longland. Climbers' Club Journal 1943, page 168 https://ccjournals.ams3.digitaloceanspaces.com/1943%20Journal_web.pdf